Did you know National Hummus Day is this coming Saturday? While you’ll almost always find a tub of hummus in my fridge (24/7/365), I figured this is a day to celebrate my love of hummus a little harder than usual.

I took the opportunity to not only celebrate hummus, but some of my favorite seasonal ingredients (and a few fun goodies), as well.

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I’ve mentioned quite frequently that one of my favorite ways to entertain (or heck, even prepare a dinner for just two people) is with DIY platters.

Pile a bunch of great ingredients onto a cutting board, platter, or even just a baking sheet, and let everybody make their own personalized dish.

But the truth is, I love photographing these platters just as much (if not more) than eating them. There’s just something about a platter bursting with colorful ingredients that my camera and I can’t get enough of.

Plus, the food stylist part of me loves screaming “more! more! put more things on that platter!”

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Have you tried cooking with endive at home? It’s a leafy green that, believe it or not, belongs to the daisy family. I see it occasionally in restaurants, but don’t often see home cooks using it. Belgian endive can be found in most larger grocery stores. It kind of looks like a very small, very tight, white and yellow head of Romaine lettuce. While it can certainly be chopped up to add a bitter accent to a mixed green salad, the boat shape of the leaves practically screams “throw a party!” and “fill me with something fun and colorful!”

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